A/N I own it all MWAHHAHA... JK i *sniff* own *sniff* nothing *wails*
Chapter 1 – Surprise
It is my 19th birthday and all I want is to sleep, he kept me up all night….again, that's the second time in a row now I thought to myself
Knock Knock
"Steph" My mum called from the other side of the door. "Yes" I managed to groan out as a response. "Oh good your awake" She said sticking her head round the door and coming into the room with a grin on her face. "Happy Birthday sweetheart" she said giving me a hug that could kill anyone half my strength "Mum - can't - breathe" I managed to choke out while in her death grip. "Oh sorry dear I just can't get over that your 19 today." She squealed with tears in her eyes, when did my mum become such a teenage girl I thought to myself. Realization hit me "God I'm 19 today" I nearly screamed. "Yes sweetheart, I thought you would forget" my mum said patting my knee. "Ok, go have a shower dear and then come down for breakfast." 19, ok one year since Ravels betrayal, Shudder's death, one year since the reflection became darkness, what else did I have to remember today? OH "Mum why aren't you in France, you said you and dad were going there with Alice." Shit this is bad this is really bad. "Oh well sweetie your father had to go away for work, and we couldn't leave you alone on your birthday." She said getting up off my bed. "Come down when you're ready for breakfast." Just then someone knocked at the front door. NO NO NO why did he have to be so…. on time shit it was already 12 damn that's longest I've every slept in. "I'll get that you get dressed." Mum said leaving my room. No she can't open that door, I quickly put on a pair of shorts and an AC/DC t-shirt. I flung myself out of my door and down the stairs to the kitchen.
I walked in to a man about 6'4 sitting across from my mum, oh and damn he was hot he had a green t-shirt with a dark pair of jeans on, well-muscled, black hair, green eyes, high cheek bones.. what I don't judge peoples cheek bones, I must just be spending too much time with that egotistical skeleton, looked around 26-ish and something was so familiar about himbut I just couldn't place it. "Hello Steph" He said in that velvet voice of his that's when I placed who he was, "Skullduggery" I gasped. My mum's eyebrows rose "As in Skullduggery Pleasant from the will reading." "That's me" egotistical-hot-not-so-much-skeleton answered. "What are you doing here?" my mum asked. "Oh Stephanie asked me if I would help her move into Gordon's house today seeing as you were going to France." "Oh really Steph" she asked me whilst giving me a withering look. "How do you two know each other since it is odiously not from the will reading if she asked you to help her move." "Mum we work together at the police station he is a detective and I'm sort off his apprentice." I stated I did not like were this was going. "Since when have you worked at the police station." she exclaimed. Since I was 12 I thougth but answered with "Since last year." Skul was sitting there trying not to laugh, he was failing miserably.
